Adding a light to a Particle System illuminates the environment and objects around the particles and makes the effect more impactful. In this tutorial, you will create a firefly effect that uses a light to illuminate the environment.

In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to set up Reflection Probes and how to get them to work in real-time. In Unity’s included sample scene of a Workshop Set, Reflection Probes are automatically included. Here, they will be removed so we can recreate our own Reflection Probes.

The goal of the Lightweight Rendering Pipeline (LWRP) is to provide optimized performance for developers targeting a broad range of platforms, VR, and games with limited realtime lighting needs. It does this by making some tradeoffs with regard to lighting and shading.

Scriptable Rendering Pipelines allow developers to write how Unity renders a frame in C#. Developers can use the built-in pipelines, develop their own pipelines, or customize an existing pipeline to meet a project’s needs. In this tutorial, you will learn about the different Scriptable Render Pipelines.

Ambient Occlusion is a post-processing effect that approximates crevice shadows in real time, darkening creases, holes, intersections, and surfaces that are close to each other. This gives a more realistic appearance to parts of objects where ambient light is blocked out or occluded. In this tutorial you'll learn how to add Ambient Occlusion to your Post Processing Stack and configure it for your scene.

Introduced in Unity 2018.1, the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) was developed to fulfill the needs of industries that require high-fidelity visuals. Area Lights in the HDRP are rendered in real time and, unlike previous pipelines, there’s no baking required. Area Lights now benefit from the HDRP’s unified lighting, which means there’s no longer a distinction between opaque, transparent, or volumetric Materials. In this tutorial, we will create an Area Light and then set its properties.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use custom render passes to render a toon outline post processing effect on selected objects

Most implementations of fog, such as exponential or linear fog, are computed at an object’s surface by the Shader that the surface uses. At most, this is once per pixel. Volumetric fog, on the other hand, is computed at intervals in the empty space in front of the camera, independent of any surface. In this tutorial, you will learn to create and adjust Volumetric Fog.

In Unit 8, Matt Conte of Oculus demonstrates how to identify performant assets to use in VR. You’ll learn how to reuse and maximize assets, scale assets effectively, optimize materials, and configure your settings to optimize its performance. You’ll also implement lighting for your VR environment in Unity. Learning Objectives: Identify performant assets and how to improve their performance in VR Understand how to reuse and maximize assets Recognize setting configurations that optimize VR performance Understand how to scale assets in VR effectively Implement best practices for optimizing materials Implement standard settings for lighting Unity VR experiences Submission: Remember to follow along and build your own vertical slice! You can access additional support and submit your vertical slice to the Oculus Developer Support team for feedback: https://developer.oculus.com/unity-learn-vr/

In this tutorial, you will learn how to apply Shadow Fade Distance to lights. One way to optimize performance is to set a Shadow Fade distance on lights in the scene. The Shadow Fade property will gradually decrease shadows cast by objects further away from the light.